Pronged eye fastener



PRONGED EYE FASTENER- APPUCATION FILED MAR. 4, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patgfitgdl lw 23 192% Application filed March 4, 1915. Serial No. 12,054.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIZABETH J. SMrrH, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in Larchmont, in the county of VVestchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improyements in Pronged Eye Fasteners, of WlllCll the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in pronged fasteners, more partlcularly to a pronged eye fastener which 1s complementary to a hook fastener, and anus to provide improvements therein.

The present invention provides a pronged eye fastener which is especlally adapted to be attached to dress fabrics, both heavy and light, which may be attached to the fabrlcs without mutilating the same, which may be firmly attached, and which will not tear the fabric or separate therefrom under the usual stresses to which a fastener of this kind may be subjected.

The present invention also prov des a fa tener which is cheaply and readily manufactured, which may be conveniently removed in fitting a garment, or the llke, and which co-operates well with a hook fastener.

The present fastener is also specially adaptable for setting by machine. 1

The invention will be described 111 greater detail in reference to the accompanying drawing.

In said dra vving-- Figure 1 is a perspective VlG'W of the fastener;

F ig. 2 is a top plan view with the prongs spread out;

Fig. 3 is a top plan view showing the fastener attached to a piece of fabric;

Fig. 4: shows a cross-section on the line liV-TV in Fig. 3, the prongs being in stand ing position;

Fig. 5 shows a cross-section on the line V-V in Fig. 3, and

Fig. 6 shows a bottom plan view of the fastener attached to a piece of fabric.

In said drawings, numeral 1 designates a bar which is adapted to be engaged by the hook, 2, 2 laterally projecting portions or shoulders, and 3, 3 the prongs. The bar 1 is preferably bowed upwardly in its middle, as indicated at l in Fig. 5. The bar 1 is also preferably provided with inwardly out or curved sides 5, 5, Fig. 2. A hook engaging bowed bar 1, and will center itself and it symmetrically upon the incurvedside 5 of the bar. The length of the bar 1, i. e., the distance between the prongs, andthe curvature of the sides, is preferably adapted to the bill of the hook, the length of the bar being slightly greater than the width of the bill of the hook. The laterally projecting portions or shoulders 52, 2 afford a broad, flat and secure bearing for the fastener on the face of the goods. The prongs 3, 3 are long and narrow and when bent over upon the underside of the goods are adapted to well overlap, without being superposed, and to firmly press the goods throughout their length against the broad underside of the fasteneraiforded by the laterally projecting portions or shoulders 52, 2. When set in the manner just described, the prongs fix the fasteners securely to the goods, and the fastener willsustain the usual stresses to which it is subjected withoutloosening, or tearing the goods. Furthermore, the goods are not mutilated by the fastener. If it is desired to reset the fastener, as, for instance, after a fitting of a garment, the prongs can be lifted with a suitable implement and the fastener removed.

What is claimed is 1. An eye fastener formed of integral sheet metal, with a hook-engaging bar, laterally-projecting base portions at the opposite ends thereof constituting a substantially l t-- shaped piece, and tapering prongs bent per pendicularly from the endsof said base portions. so that when passed through a fabric and flattened down they may clamp the fabric between themselves and such base portions, the hook-engaging bar being humped upwardly at its middle above the plane of said base portions, the lateral base portions being of a length approximating their dis tance apart, whereby the prongs enter the fabric at four widely separated points located in approximation to the corners of a tions, each of a length approximating the length of such base portions, oppositely tapered so that when passed through a fab ric and flattened down they may lie side by side and clamp the fabric between themselves and such base portions, the hook-engaging In Witness whereof, Ihave hereunto signed bar being humped upwardly at its middle my name in the presence of two subscribing 10 above the plane of said base portions, the witnesses.

lateral base portions being of a length ap- ELIZABETH JANE SM 1TH. promlnatlng their distance apart, whereby the prongs enter the fabric at four Widely W1tnesses:

separated points located in approximation GUSTAVE R. THOMPSON,

to the corners of a square. CHAS. LYON RUSSELL. 

